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Casting Call! Food Network Challenge Wants You


We get casting calls for modified folks all the time—some more interesting/tasteful than others, but this is one of the better ones! The Food Network is looking for some engaged (as in to be married) folks from the body modification community to have some wacky cakes designed for them. I won’t speak for the rest of BME, but I love me some Food Network, so this is one request I can pass on with a clean conscience. (PS: Bobby Flay, call me!)

If you use your body as a canvas for tattoos, piercings and wild hair styles, we want to hear from you. The highly rated show, Food Network Challenge is looking for an outgoing engaged couple to appear on its show. Couples should enjoy thinking outside the box. The couple will watch as four of the country’s best cake designers compete to make an extreme wedding cake just for them. These cakes will move and even shoot fireworks. Anyone interested should send a photo and short bio to [email protected]. Taping happens in Denver, CO at the end of August. Travel and hotel accommodations are paid for.

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Comments

30 responses to “Casting Call! Food Network Challenge Wants You”

  1. Sick Avatar
    Sick

    shit i am about to just pretend to be getting married to get on the show

  2. Sick Avatar
    Sick

    shit i am about to just pretend to be getting married to get on the show

  3. OwlEyes Avatar

    if only i were engaged!

  4. OwlEyes Avatar

    if only i were engaged!

  5. Ash Avatar
    Ash

    I was thinking the exact same things!

  6. Ash Avatar
    Ash

    I was thinking the exact same things!

  7. Kevin Avatar
    Kevin

    whoaaa look at the weirdos and their weeeeiiiiiiiiird caaakes with firecrackers and shit on them! stupid.

  8. Kevin Avatar
    Kevin

    whoaaa look at the weirdos and their weeeeiiiiiiiiird caaakes with firecrackers and shit on them! stupid.

  9. kier Avatar

    Oh my god, I love Food Network. It’s pretty much all I watch.

  10. kier Avatar

    Oh my god, I love Food Network. It’s pretty much all I watch.

  11. Pawly Avatar

    ohhhh maaaannnn!!! im getting married in one week! why couldnt they be doing this like a month ago! i still may apply for fun, but me and my fiancee are pretty “outside of the box”!!

  12. Pawly Avatar

    ohhhh maaaannnn!!! im getting married in one week! why couldnt they be doing this like a month ago! i still may apply for fun, but me and my fiancee are pretty “outside of the box”!!

  13. C Avatar
    C

    …wild hairstyles?
    yes, my body is a canvas to teased hair.
    pfft.
    the hell.

  14. C Avatar
    C

    …wild hairstyles?
    yes, my body is a canvas to teased hair.
    pfft.
    the hell.

  15. Kate Avatar
    Kate

    I don’t think anyone who truly “thinks outside the box” is going to apply to be on some campy show on the Food Network…

  16. Kate Avatar
    Kate

    I don’t think anyone who truly “thinks outside the box” is going to apply to be on some campy show on the Food Network…

  17. BB Avatar
    BB

    Of course; because people who have mods wouldn’t ever DREAM of a classic wedding :-/

  18. BB Avatar
    BB

    Of course; because people who have mods wouldn’t ever DREAM of a classic wedding :-/

  19. Tranque Avatar
    Tranque

    BB: Maybe some of us don’t want classic weddings. Obviously, they are asking for the couples who may.
    Furthermore, who says you can’t have a classic wedding with a snazzy cake?

    It sounds like great fun. If I were getting married, I’d definitely want someone from Food Network (Ace of Cakes) to design any wacky cake I might want.

    Congratulations in advance to the engaged couple who are chosen!

  20. Tranque Avatar
    Tranque

    BB: Maybe some of us don’t want classic weddings. Obviously, they are asking for the couples who may.
    Furthermore, who says you can’t have a classic wedding with a snazzy cake?

    It sounds like great fun. If I were getting married, I’d definitely want someone from Food Network (Ace of Cakes) to design any wacky cake I might want.

    Congratulations in advance to the engaged couple who are chosen!

  21. Ru Avatar

    Oh, if only! That’s awesome.

  22. Ru Avatar

    Oh, if only! That’s awesome.

  23. Sade Avatar
    Sade

    Dammit, I’d so lie and say I am getting married…Food Network is the shit!

  24. Sade Avatar
    Sade

    Dammit, I’d so lie and say I am getting married…Food Network is the shit!

  25. Natalee Avatar
    Natalee

    I am all over this shit!! I love food, im engaged and my finace is a stud .win win win

  26. Natalee Avatar
    Natalee

    I am all over this shit!! I love food, im engaged and my finace is a stud .win win win

  27. prodigy Avatar

    !!!

    I would almost fake an engagement for this. Almost.

  28. prodigy Avatar

    !!!

    I would almost fake an engagement for this. Almost.

  29. Laura Avatar
    Laura

    Dammit, why did I find this two weeks too late?
    Do you people know how much an awesome wedding cake costs? I would absolutely sell out for a chance to have 4 choices of ridiculous wedding cake.

    Crap.

  30. Laura Avatar
    Laura

    Dammit, why did I find this two weeks too late?
    Do you people know how much an awesome wedding cake costs? I would absolutely sell out for a chance to have 4 choices of ridiculous wedding cake.

    Crap.

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